It’s December 12, 2012, and we ought to celebrate! You know we won’t experience the good fortune of a matching number month-day-year again until next century (and I fear I won’t be around to enjoy that one). So…

Eat a dozen donuts for breakfast.

Use the word twelve in every conversation you have today.

Run twelve miles… or twelve minutes.

Spend twelve dollars on a gift and give it to the twelfth person you see today.

Memorize the names of the twelve apostles — or if you’re Jewish perhaps the twelve tribes of Israel (are Jews any more likely to have memorized the twelve tribes than Christians are the twelve apostles?).

Have a moment of silence at 12:12 (the one that hasn’t happened yet) in order to reflect on this rare occasion.

I don’t care much what you do. But do something! Celebrate this twelfth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year in this century. And if you do indeed decide to celebrate, leave a comment telling us all what you’re doing.

Oh, what’s that? What am I doing on 12-12-12? Well, for starters I’m offering you guys…

1. Martian Love and Alien Pick-Up Lines (top ten alien pick-up lines AND the most visited page on my entire blog — LOTS of people looking to hit it off either with visitors from outer space or with fellow Star Trek reunion-goers)

Don’t forget to let us all know how you’re celebrating 12-12-12!

* Or nine or five or three. Let’s not be so letter-of-the-law when it comes to naming something a top ten list, shall we?

Okay, so since I already ran today (5.3 miles), I did 12 pushups (the girly kind), 12 crunches, and 12 bicycle crunch things. :) And I may do that one more time…it is waking me up better then the cup of coffee I am drinking. ;)

about me

My name is Brett Harrison. I begin each morning with several (4-8) cups of coffee and a prayer that's scribbled in the front of every notebook I own: "Today I will seek God's face. I will seek his rule in my life as I live in his kingdom. I will strive to live into the reality of my right relationship with God."
Then I pinch myself as a reminder of two other realities -- 1) that I married WAY up and 2) that my wife, Christie, and I have two beautiful daughters, Baylor Adelaide and Harper Mae. The four of us live together in Geita, Tanzania, where Christie and I are working as servants. It's not really our home, though, and we're often reminded of just that....

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